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Image number: RS.9798
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Laboratory equipment for chemical analysis
Date
ca.1784
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 160mm
width (painting): 196mm
width (painting): 196mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Unpublished plate from the paper “Essai sur une nouvelle maniere d’analiser les substances animales et vegetales”, by Nicolas-Christiern de Thy, Comte de Milly (1728-1784). Showing a chemical furnace, with glass retorts and tubes, for heating and distilling animal and vegetable substances for analytical purposes. Not signed.
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